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It’s Not Rubella, It’s a Heat Rash

While you might not be idiot enough to think that the heat rash on my baby’s face is Rubella, when I woke up on Thursday to discover it – well let’s just say I’m exactly that kind of idiot. And being pregnant and not immune to Rubella did lend itself to an objective diagnosis. Even [...]

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Herself

You’ve got to love 48 hour bugs. Because the during might be bad but at the end of the day it’s all over rather quickly. When a certain cheeky toddler woke at 9pm last night and was buzzing around the lounge room, mercilessly stealing all of her dad’s dinner like a seagull and generally being [...]

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100/365 The Feverish Toddler

I can’t remember the last time Riley was sick. But that’s why I have a blog right? I’ve admitted that I don’t have the brain power to retain the details of my own life and so I let my blog do it for me. That search led me to find that although she did have [...]

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The Good Patient

The little googy has not been well. We think it’s teething – there’s plenty of drooling, diarrhea and a nasty high temperature without any other symptoms of infection. Most likely it’s her two year molars. I got quite a shock yesterday when I took her temperature (under the arm) and it was 39.6 (103 F). She [...]

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The Plague

I broke out in a blister like rash on Christmas day. I don’t know about you, but blistering sounds biblical to me. Today, after allergy medications didn’t seem to be making a dent I went to the hospital and was informed I had shingles. Or the plague, they weren’t overly specific. Still given that I’ve been having [...]

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